Convert:
(b) Sodium acetate into methane.

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Solution

Sodium acetate into methane in the presence of Soda lime $(C a O + N a O H)$ . CaO acts as catalyst and the optimum temperature for this reaction to occur is 300 °C.

$C H_{3} C O O N a + N a O H \to N a_{2} C O_{3} + C H_{4}$

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